“Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics—they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Conservatism means re-embracing true free enterprise. True free enterprise, which I believe and not because my parents were wealthy, not because I… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within… — Hodding Carter III Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Today conservatism has arrived in that dark place. Even as American journalism lurches palpably to the right, the best-selling right-wing media critics… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Whether it's called 'compassionate conservatism' or 'big government Republicanism,' after years of record increases in federal spending, more government is now the… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I think Ronald Reagan is what happened…The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream…It also brought us the beginning of the… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
If Theresa May is big enough to admit her mistakes and put a kinder Conservatism into the heart of her government, she… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign policy rather than carnival bark outside… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where conservatism is on the rise - from America to Europe and in Singapore, too. People are… — Ivan Heng Copy Share Image
To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The left wants, needs, loves, and exacerbates violent conflict. The question is…why?...Conservatives generally want policy discussions because we disagree with liberals. Liberals… — Eric Golub Copy Share Image
“...We are reviled, much like black conservatives and any other minority group that says ‘no’ to the Left’s victimhood politics…It’s amazing that… — Chadwick Moore Copy Share Image
Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
“The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“The ease with which large producers can transfer their costs is the glaring abuse through which the market – otherwise one of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conscientious conservatism includes responding to the needs and struggles of Americans with a responsible and efficient government and incorporating outside organizations that… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
